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About Association rulesPurpose
Use an Association rule to define a relationship between two classes based on matching values in pairs of properties. A typical use of an association rule is to enable your application to automatically add a join to a report that displays properties from both classes referenced in the association.
Association rules are one-directional. To represent the relationship between two classes A and B, you usually need to define two associations:
- An association where the Applies To key part is A, which associates data instances in B to those in A.
- An association where the Applies To key part is B, which associates data instances in A to those in B.
Access
To see the association rules available to your current application, select
> Reporting > Report Components > Associations. To see all association rules in your system, use the Rules Explorer.
Where referenced
Association rules are referenced in report definitions, to allow a report to contain data from both the instances of the Applies To class and the joined or associated class.
Standard rules
PRPC contains more than 50 standard association rules, which are available automatically as you work with the Report Definition form. Before creating an application-specific association rule, check to see whether a standard rule is available that provides the association you need for a report.
PDN Resources
See PDN article 26153 When and how to create an association rule to support reporting.
Category
Association rules are part of the 
SysAdmin category. An Association rule is an instance of the Rule-Obj-Association class.
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